If you have a new mobile phone such as a Sony Ericsson Walkman phone, you will find that it has a camera, video recording, sound recording, MP3 player, and a phonebook and diary all built into it. It can also surf the internet, which means that it can keep a record of the pages that you have visited.
Most of the latest mobile phones have a whole range of features to make them more useful and to give them an ever increasing role in our lives. The latest phones have all kinds of additional things built into them that make them hungry for more power and memory, and thanks to this, fitting additional memory for your mobile phone is often an important consideration when choosing a new phone.
The internal memory of the phone is quite limited, and is unable to store all the photos, videos and music that you may want to carry around with you, but luckily, it is possible to buy a standard memory stick with a capacity of up to 2GB and slot it into the phone in order to supplement the existing memory.
In general, the rule to follow when buying storage for your mobile phone is that more is better. It is always better to have something and not need it than to need it and not have it. Of course, larger memory sticks cost more money, but over the course of a year or 18 months of ownership, you will probably stock up a lot of photos using your phone.
An average MP3 file takes up around 4MB of space depending on the length and quality of the recording, so a 2GB memory card will hold around about 500 songs, which is about the same as an iPod nano. For most people who do not want to carry their entire music collection around with them, 2GB is a good size, although if you do take a lot of videos, you may fill it up quite quickly.
The actual size of a video file will vary with the length of the film. Short video clips of the sort that you may normally watch on a phone are generally around the same size as a music file, so bear this in mind.
With a 2 mega pixel camera built into your phone, taking pictures at the highest possible quality all the time will result in you being able to store literally thousands of images on your mobile, so it is particularly unlikely that you will fill the memory card. One thing to consider though is to regularly back up all your images onto your PC or an online storage service like Flicker where you know that they will be safe. There is nothing worse than having your phone stolen and losing all your important photos inside it.